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Former President Thabo Mbeki said they are also working with other parties to find a solution to the conflict in Sudan.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said he hoped all the parties will use the four-day truce to try and find a lasting solution to the conflict.
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor said they want a peaceful solution to the conflict in the Middle East.
OPINION: Protecting your children is not about concealing the truth; it’s about delivering it in a safe and calm manner, writes Alison Scott.
President Cyril Ramaphosa believes the revival of the Middle East peace process will lead to the cessation of hostilities.
The Muslim Judicial Council’s Halaal Trust announced it would decline, refuse, and not certify any goods or services emanating from Israel.
Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said it was through dialogue and negotiation that peace can be achieved in the Middle East.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said the world wants a peaceful solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine and a viable two-state solution.
The Human Sciences Research Council and Africa Institute of South Africa hosted a diplomatic conversation around the Israel-Hamas war currently raging on in the Middle-East.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said former president of Finland Martti Ahtisaari had brokered peace agreements across the world.
Minister Naledi Pandor received a call to talk to the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh.
Reverend Frank Chikane and other members of the South African Anti-Apartheid Steering Committee, together with their partners in Palestine, addressed the media on Tuesday about the launch of the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement.
Former president Thabo Mbeki said the death of both Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin appeared to have dealt a blow to the peace process between Palestinians and Israelis.
OPINION: The collapse of the grain deal, despite the explicit plea of the African peace mission, begs the question about the effectiveness of Africa’s diplomacy with the global powers, writes David Monyae.
The Speaker, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, said there has be no winner in a war situation as all sides suffer casualties.
The office of the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said they were acting on information that the members of its peacekeeping mission in the eastern DRC, under Monusco, were involved in sexual abuse cases.
The ANC Veterans League said the people who will benefit from the conflict will be the arms industry in the West.
Cosatu said ordinary people in Israel and Palestine want to live in peace, and leaders on both sides have to return to the negotiating table.
Deputy President Paul Mashatile said his boss, Cyril Ramaphosa, has been calling for peace in the province.
OPINION: Does the envisaged reconciliation mean that the ANC and the IFP must put their differences aside and work together, or does it simply mean that the two parties must hold a media conference and announce that they have reconciled and have buried their political differences but will not form a coalition or work together in government?, writes Prof. Bheki Mngomezulu.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said he met with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the UN, where he said some of the issues that were raised by African leaders during the peace mission in July are being resolved, including prisoner exchanges and the return of children from Russia.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says their peace mission to Kyiv and St Petersburg had an impact.
OPINION: One of the main criticisms of the Security Council is that its composition does not reflect the current distribution of power and influence in the world.
The SANDF says the bilateral meeting was planned ‘well in advance’ and is a long-standing arrangement.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that he does not accept that our non-aligned position favours Russia above other countries. Nor does he accept that it should imperil our relations with other countries.